Fall 2010 Internet2 Member Meeting

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Title: Fall 2010 Internet2 Member Meeting: Program Updates for Thursday, November 4

 

Contents Program Changes Second General Session Spotlights Innovative Broadband Opportunities Internet2 Industry Members Sponsor Events and Activities Host a Future Member Meeting In short InfoTable - Stop by the InfoTable, located near Registration, to pick up copies of the latest infosheets. The complete library of Internet2 publications is available for download at internet2.edu/info. Poster Sessions - Be sure to spend some time at the Member Meeting Poster Sessions, where you will have the opportunity to talk with technical experts about their projects. Presenters and organizational representatives will be available to discuss their posters. Please refer to the online meeting program for Poster Session times. Complete Evaluations - and Win Prizes! Help us shape future meetings by completing the online session evaluations as well as the overall meeting evaluation, which is also linked from the Member Meeting website. Attendees who complete the meeting evaluation will be eligible to win one of two gift cards. Your feedback is important to us! Questions? Should you have any questions throughout the meeting, please don't hesitate to contact the Internet2 staff, who are wearing badges with the red "STAFF" ribbon. Upcoming events Day CAMP: Getting Started with InCommon November 4-5, Atlanta, GA Shibboleth Workshop Series November 9-10, Easton, PA SC10 November, 13-19, New Orleans, LA Network Performing Arts Production Workshop November 22-24, Paris, France Joint Techs January 30-February 3, Clemson, SC Spring 2011 Internet2 Member Meeting April 18-20, Arlington, VA Social Media & Tagging Building on the trials at recent Member Meetings, photos, videos, and blog posts tagged with I2FMM10 will be aggregated at http://www.netvibes.com/Internet2. See http://www.internet2.edu/tags for more information. If you use Twitter, you can follow Internet2 to get tweets during the meeting and use the #I2FMM10 hashtag to share tweets with other Twitter users. Become a fan! Follow us on Twitter

SPECIAL NOTE: The start time for the Thursday General Session has been moved to 8:30 AM. Program Changes for Thursday, November 4 General Session New start time: 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Location: Grand Ballroom III/IV VO/CO Topics - Interinstitutional Research and Collaboration Approaches 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM Location: Fulton Speakers removed: Gregory Haverkamp, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Mark Schulz, Cisco Systems New Title: Mobile Perspectives on Videoconferencing and Visual Communications Was: New Perspectives on Videoconferencing and Visual Communications 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM Location: Chancellor I/II A Simple, High Availability, High Performance Approach to Expanding Education Networks 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM Location: Kennesaw Speaker removed: Steven White, Fujitsu Network Communications Speaker added: David Gutierrez, Fujitsu Network Communications Day CAMP: Getting Started with the InCommon Federation 1:30 PM - 5:30 PM Location: Waverly New end time: 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM Second General Session Spotlights Innovative Broadband Opportunities Second General Session, Thursday, November 4, 8:30-10:00AM: On Thursday, Internet2 welcomes Lawrence Strickling, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information, and Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), and Lev Gonick, CIO and vice president at Case Western Reserve University, as speakers at the second General Session. As the agency principally responsible for advising the President on communications and information policies, the NTIA has been charged with implementing the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP), with the goal of expanding broadband access and adoption across the U.S. The research and education community that makes up the Internet2 membership has been a major recipient of BTOP funding aimed at jumpstarting the expansion of broadband capabilities to community anchor institutions across the U.S. Strickling’s talk will highlight this important program. Gonick will spotlight his university’s visionary “Case Connection Zone” project, which is bringing gigabit fiber connections to underserved and impoverished Cleveland neighborhoods. Researchers at Case Western Reserve University believe broadband, along with training, computers and other broadband-enabled devices, may be a critical factor in improving the lives of these neighborhoods’ residents. The project was made possible with the help of Corning (for fiber optics), Cisco (for routers and switches) and a host of other industry partners. In collaboration with 40 community partners—including health care providers, public safety agencies, educational institutions and others—the project aims to evaluate the impact that 1 Gbps broadband access to the home has on neighborhood and community safety, health care and wellness, energy management and sustainability, and improving high school-age student competency in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) subjects. Internet2 Industry Members Sponsor Events and Activities Internet2 gratefully acknowledges the sponsors of the Fall 2010 Internet2 Member Meeting. Internet2 would like to thank ADVA Optical Networking, Ciena, Cisco, Force10, Fujitsu Network Communications, Infinera, Juniper Networks, and Level3 Communications for their generous sponsorship of this meeting. Additionally, Internet2 thanks Cisco, HP, Juniper, Polycom, SKC, and Vidyo for providing supporting equipment. The generous support of these sponsors has helped to make this Member Meeting possible! Host a Future Member Meeting If your organization is interested in hosting a future Internet2 Member Meeting and you would like more information about what is involved--and more importantly, the benefits to your organization--please contact Marianne Smith, Director of Member & Partner Relations either by email: or by phone (734) 352-4976.

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